Large educational improvements have been demonstrated in Africa with AI too. What seems to be happening is that benefits students gain from one-on-one tutoring, happen with AI which effectively functions as the same thing.

The article says they are using less powerful software in America than China, which is not what I would have expected for an American company.

Something I heard recently both surprised me, yet at the same time resonated with me. It was the view that the 21st century is being modeled in China’s image where the 20th century was modeled on America. The US thought it would make China more like it, instead America has become more like China - transactional and authoritarian in its dealings with the world.